Podcasts about pragmatic manager

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Want to become a better manager? Then manage yourself better! From managing the time you spend managing, and all the way to managing how you give your team new tasks... Let's get real with Johanna Rothman, whom they don't call the Pragmatic Manager for nothing. You will love her straight-talking approach to management. After almost 40 years in management, she can boil down things to sharp principles that will make you either hand pump

Mark interviews Johanna Rothman about her latest book FREE YOUR INNER NON-FICTION WRITER. Prior to the interview, Mark shares a personal update and a word about this episode's sponsor This episode is sponsored by Mark's new book Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard. In the interview, Mark and Johanna talk about: Why Johanna is often called The Pragmatic Manager The thirty-years of consulting that Johanna has experience with The fact that she is not a "natural writer" Beginning to write in 1997 because she realized that speaking only wasn't a great way to market her business as a consultant Advice Johanna received from Gerald Weinberg How Johanna began to write short fiction in 2016 Being involved in the early days of "Agile" development Why Johanna recommends writing in 15 minute chunks for non-fiction Who the idea reader is for Johanna's book FREE YOUR INNER NONFICTION WRITER How to keep a business-related blog interesting How writing non-fiction includes universal story elements: "a person in a situation with a problem" The "write fast to write well" concept The importance of maintaining your voice Why Johanna writes a question of the week on her blog The book Obliquity by John Kay and how detours might help us better in the long run Advice Johanna would offer to writers for getting better at their own non-fiction writing And more... After the interview Mark reflects on the importance of your author voice as well as the divergent ways you sometimes find your way to your destination. Links of Interest: Johanna Rothman's Website Create an Adaptable Life Free Your Inner Non-Fiction Writer Lou J. Berger (IMDB) Buy Mark a Coffee Patreon for Stark Reflections Best Book Ever Podcast Lovers Moon Podcast The Relaxed Author Buy eBook Direct Buy Audiobook Direct Publishing Pitfalls for Authors An Author's Guide to Working with Libraries & Bookstores Wide for the Win Mark's Canadian Werewolf Books This Time Around (Short Story) A Canadian Werewolf in New York Stowe Away (Novella) Fear and Longing in Los Angeles Fright Nights, Big City Lover's Moon Hex and the City The Canadian Mounted: A Trivia Guide to Planes, Trains and Automobiles Yippee Ki-Yay Motherf*cker: A Trivia Guide to Die Hard   Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your complex problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see practical alternatives that help them achieve more agility in their work. With that knowledge, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development. For almost three decades, Johanna has helped her clients experiment with agile and lean alternatives for every piece of their product development. As a result, her clients create more management agility which translates to better business results. A prolific writer, Johanna is the author of 18 books and hundreds of articles about many aspects of product development. She uses her trademark practicality and humor to focus on what people can do—and not take herself too seriously.   The introductory, end, and bumper music for this podcast (“Laser Groove”) was composed and produced by Kevin MacLeod of www.incompetech.com and is Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

In Software Process and Measurement Cast 764 we feature my conversation with Johanna Rothman. We discussed her new book Successful Independent Consulting. Well, we started there and then hit topics like personal value and the impact of success. This might be the eleventy-first conversation I have had with Johanna, and each time I look forward to our time together with anticipation. They are always like attending a master class.  Buy a copy of Successful Independent Consulting. Available everywhere including:   Leanpub: Amazon:     Johanna's Bio: Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your thorny problems. She helps leaders and teams learn to see simple and reasonable options that might work. Those practical alternatives can help them be more effective with others at work. With those choices, they can choose what—and how—to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 19 books, hundreds of articles, and blog posts about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books include Successful Independent Consulting, Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer, and Modern Management Made Easy series. Find her monthly newsletter and blogs at   & .  Editor's note: If you are not subscribed to Johanna's newsletter…you should be. Re-Read Saturday News Simple is the first principle of making something sticky. It is also the title of chapter 1 of . There are three areas in this chapter I would like to spend more time with.  The formula core + compactness = simple Curse of knowledge  Metaphors and analogies As you read the chapter you will see that all three are intertwined; however, each of the three is useful to consider in isolation. Buy a copy of the book and then catch up on the logistics of this re-read: Week 1: -   Week 2: -   Week 3: -   Next SPaMCAST  In the Software Process and Measurement Cast 765, we will continue with our summer theme on critical thinking by exploring how experts, experience, and evidence apply to critical thinking.  We will also have a visit from the one and only Susan Parente, who brings her Not A Scrumdamentalist column to the podcast.  

In this episode of #AgileWay podcast I have a conversation with Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” who offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development. Today we talked about her favourite topic of modern management. This podcast is sponsored by “Emergence” Journal of Business Agility. Four times a year, it brings together a curated selection of exclusive stories by great thinkers and practitioners from around the globe. Subscribe for Emergence Journal and get a 10% discount using "agileprague" promo code.

Are you working in an organization where it seems there are lose-lose internal dynamics among managers?  If so, why is that and how can you help to change it?The nature of work today requires collaboration and teaming to drive business outcomes like never before.  Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for organizational leaders, managers and teams tackling tough problems.   In this episode of Center Stage, Johanna shares how optimizing individual achievement over that of the team or organization deeply roots lose-lose propositions into organizational culture.  Incorporating key concepts and learnings from her books, the Modern Management Made Easy series, she provides practical examples of how organizations are shifting structures and reward systems to create win-win engagements among managers.  More importantly, she offers seven principles of modern management aimed at increasing performance, rather than overseeing people and their work.  For example, the principle of catch people succeeding flips on its head the traditionally punitive, disciplinary role of management and moves it more toward motivation and recognition.Johanna also talks about how the impact of subtle change can impact management.  She presents examples that illustrate the differences among managers who have a mindset of being “responsible for” versus “responsible to” their teams.  She talks about how behaviors, actions and motivations are different for each mindset as well as the impacts of each mindset on individuals and teams.Having started her career as a software developer, Johanna has also worked as a project manager, program manager, and people manager. Today, as a consultant and trainer/coach, she helps leaders, teams, and organizations create successful teams and projects and manage risk. She has authored more than 18 books on modern management, leading teams, agile and lean program management, portfolio management and related topics. Read more of her blog, articles, and her Pragmatic Manager newsletter on www.jrothman.com.Chock full of good practices from real-life situations, this Center Stage podcast emphasizes the key role the modern manager can play in helping teams and organizations realize outcomes.  

Today we host Johanna Rothman, and she is challenged with the heuristic “Get the team in a rhythm” from the Xebia Essentials repository (https://essentials.xebia.com/team-rhythm/). She starts explaining how the team rhythm and feedback cycles are connected and can strengthen each other. We discuss the role of a manager, and also how the managers should operate as a team, rather than be an extension of a team. Last but not the least, she shares her experiences with agile leadership, where it is necessary to move between discovery and delivery modes. And she left us with a heuristic, “Prune the decision tree”. Johanna recommends: Multiple shot feedback loops support innovation: https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2020/12/multiple-short-feedback-loops-support-innovation/ The pretty link for all three Modern Management Made Easy books: https://www.jrothman.com/mmme The hiring book: https://www.jrothman.com/hiring Multiple short feedback loops support innovation: https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2020/12/multiple-short-feedback-loops-support-innovation/ Some posts on management cohorts: https://www.jrothman.com/mpd/2021/03/management-peer-cohort-vs-team-pairing-and-mobbing/ https://www.jrothman.com/pragmaticmanager/2021/01/create-your-peer-management-team-for-fun-and-profit-and-to-solve-problems/   Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman), known as the “Pragmatic Manager”, offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humour, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, and Create Your Successful Agile Project. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com.

Known as the “Pragmatic Manager," Johanna offers frank advice for tough culture problems. In this episode, we chat a bit about her new book, Modern Management Made Easy, a three volume set. Johanna explains why no one's intentions are enough to create an agile culture. Only our behaviors can create that culture. Which behaviors does the environment encourage? And which behaviors does the environment discourage? That's the culture. So come on in, and find out how Johanna can help your company move its culture in the right direction. And don't forget to listen for how to win a copy of her new book, Modern Management Made Easy. We will be giving away several copies. Oh... and they are all signed too! What?!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/join/6045853?)

Johanna Rothman, a.k.a. the Pragmatic Manager, is author of 18 books and frequent blogger on the topic of product management and more. Rothman shares with us insights about her latest three-book bundle on “Modern Management Made Easy.” These books are full of “the kinds of questions I keep hearing from my clients.” Each chapter begins with a question followed by a popular myth and then many different options for managing oneself, others, and one's system to be more effective at work. “We are now in the hard work of trying to help entire organizations change their entire cultures… An Agile approach is not a new lifecycle: it's a culture change. And managers hold and refine the culture for the organization.” Accenture | SolutionsIQ's Alalia Lundy hosts. Learn more about Johanna Rothman at jrothman.com. 

In this episode, we talk with Johanna about some key insights and tips from her latest book series: Modern Management. Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website: http://bit.ly/SMTP_ShowNotes. About Johanna Rothman People know Johanna as the “Pragmatic Manager.” She provides frank advice—often with a little humor—for really tough problems. She helps leaders and managers do reasonable things that work. She has written many books. At least 13 if my count is right. She also writes articles for all kinds of places, including Better Software, IEEE Software, and Cutter IT Journal to name just three. She's keynoted on five continents and is not sure (yet) she wants to go to Antarctica. Johanna can help you create projects, teams, and organizations that work. You can link with Johanna Rothman on LinkedIn and connect with Johanna Rothman on Twitter.

This week, Dan Neumann is excited to be joined by Johanna Rothman — also known as the Pragmatic Manager. Johanna is a management consultant for managers and leaders. She helps leaders identify their problems and seize the opportunities that they know exist — but just can’t find yet. She also provides assessments, workshops and training, coaching, speaking, and facilitation. Additionally, Johanna is also an author of some incredible books on the topics of amplifying your effectiveness, hiring, management, agility, scaling collaboration, and more.   Most recently, Johanna released a triad of management books called, Modern Management Made Easy. These three books are Practical Ways to Manage Yourself, Practical Ways to Lead and Serve — Manage — Others, and Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization.   In their conversation today, Johanna unpacks these three books and shares some of the key pieces of information you will want to know as a manager or leader in managing and leading yourself, others, and an innovative organization.   Key Takeaways Johanna’s Modern Management Made Easy Book Series: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself Practical Ways to Lead and Serve — Manage — Others Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization Key lessons from Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: “Managing oneself” myth: “I must solve the team’s problems for the team” As a manager, you can’t solve your team’s problems or “inflict help”; instead, you should ask, “Do you need any information from me?” or, “Do you need my help to solve the problem?” The manager stance of: “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions,” is not effective; you should be providing suggestions on where the team member can go next and engage in the problem-solving Key lessons from Practical Ways to Lead and Serve — Manage — Others: Myth: “Performance reviews are motivating” — in truth, they can be incredibly demotivating As a manager giving a performance review, you should be providing feedback that the team member can take action on and improve from You shouldn’t be asking more from those that are doing incredibly well and expecting them to deliver even more than what you expect from other people Don’t make the performance review all about money — this can be very demotivating People do need feedback, just not often not in the form of performance reviews (“There is a difference between feedback and evaluation” — Johanna Rothman) Conduct one-on-ones with everybody that you lead and serve on a regular basis (at least every two weeks), and you will come to understand what everyone wants and needs, and how they’re working within the organization Key lessons from Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Offer feedback and coaching labs within the organization “If we can focus more on what’s working in the organization and what’s working with people, we are more likely to achieve the results that we want.” — Johanna Rothman Use change-focused feedback and ask for the change that you want Peer-to-peer feedback works for almost anything (and the key is to do it as soon as you notice a challenge) Congruence is key (balance yourself, the needs of others, as well as the context you are in) Ask yourself: “How do we make it so the team can succeed?” Resilience as a team is key and it’s important to make sure to balance the needs of everybody (i.e. sometimes we need flexibility and sometimes we can extend flexibility to others) Intentionally practice management You don’t have to be a manager all by yourself; you can talk to your peers and work together   Mentioned in this Episode: AgileThought.com/Events — Visit for AgileThought’s upcoming virtual events & RSVP! Johanna Rothman Johanna’s Twitter @JohannaRothman Johanna’s Books Modern Management Made Easy Book Series Kurt Lewin Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes, by Alfie Kohn Pfeffer and Sutton Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management, by Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg “Why A Career Jungle Gym Is Better Than A Career Ladder” Johanna Rothman’s Blogs   Want to Learn More or Get in Touch? Visit the website and catch up with all the episodes on AgileThought.com! Email your thoughts or suggestions to Podcast@AgileThought.com or Tweet @AgileThought using #AgileThoughtPodcast!    

Cue the music . . . Happy Birthday, Software Process and Measurement Cast!  Today we begin year 15 with a visit from Johanna Rothman.  We talked about her THREE new books: Practical Ways to Manage Yourself: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 1 https://amzn.to/2LXKkiQ Practical Ways to Lead & Serve (Manage) Others: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 2 - https://amzn.to/39Viwnj  Practical Ways to Lead an Innovative Organization: Modern Management Made Easy, Book 3 - https://amzn.to/3qS90Z3  We of course covered more ground.  For example about 2/3rds of the way through we talked about why the word experiment is a dirty word in most organizations. This is a longer interview, but when I grow up I want to be just like Johanna (I am serious).  Here is her bio: Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” offers frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams do reasonable things that work. Equipped with that knowledge, they can decide how to adapt their product development. With her trademark practicality and humor, Johanna is the author of 18 books about many aspects of product development. Her most recent books are the Modern Management Made Easy series, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby) and Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. See all her books, blog, and other resources at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com. The Software Process and Measurement Cast is a proud media sponsor of the DevOps Online Summit.  Not to put too fine a point on it, one of the best ways to get your message heard is to speak.  The crew at the DevOps Online Summit provides a phenomenal platform to network with fellow practitioners from all over the world. Start the journey to speaking at the DevOps Online Summit 2021 by submitting at https://bit.ly/3syp2c5    https://bit.ly/3syp2c5 Re-Read Saturday News  Today we take on Chapter 7 of Great Big Agile, An OS for Agile Leaders by Jeff Dalton. In three more weeks, we will begin Fixing Your Scrum: Practical Solutions to Common Scrum Problems (it is time to buy a copy). Remember, buy a copy and read along.  This week’s installment can be found at www.tomcagley.com/blog Previous installments: Week 1: Re-read Logistics and Front Matters - https://bit.ly/3mgz9P6  Week 2: The API Is Broken - https://bit.ly/2JGpe7l Week 3: Performance Circle: Leading - https://bit.ly/2K3poWy  Week 4: Performance Circle: Providing - http://bit.ly/3mNJJN7  Week 5: Performance Circle: Envisioning - https://bit.ly/2JEVXdt  Week 6: Performance Circle: Crafting - https://bit.ly/3ntsX69  Week 7: Performance Circle: Affirming - http://bit.ly/35OvFgC  Week 8: Performance Circle: Teaming - http://bit.ly/366CYk0  Next SPaMCAST User Stories and Tony Timbol will take center stage. User stories are ubiquitous in agile.  Getting them right is really important. Tony gives us some ideas to move the ball forward. 

In this episode, we have special guests Johanna and Mark talk about lessons learned for teams going quickly #Remote. ------- Read the full Show Notes and search through the world’s largest audio library on Scrum directly on the Scrum Master Toolbox Podcast website.  Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems and resolve risks and manage their product development. Johanna is the author of fourteen books and hundreds of articles. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com As an agile coach, Mark Kilby has cultivated more distributed and dispersed teams than collocated teams. He’s coached as a consultant, an internal coach, and as a facilitator of distributed professional communities. His easy-going style helps teams learn to collaborate and discover their path to success and sustainability. See markkilby.com for his blog and articles. You can find Johanna’s and Mark’s book on Amazon and LeanPub.

For the second episode, Shahin had the honor to talk with Johanna on the topic of Speaking at Conferences, tips and tricks on it and how to become a better one. She recently wrote the book "Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts". We discussed the book as well. If you are thinking of starting your speaking journey, We recommend to listen to the show and highly recommend to read her book. Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see and solve their problems, resolve risks, and manage their product development. Johanna is the author of seventeen books and hundreds of articles. Find the Pragmatic Manager, a monthly email newsletter, and her blogs at jrothman.com and createadaptablelife.com. Her new book: Write a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts Resources from the podcast: Agile Alliance 2020 proposal  - Submission deadline: February 9th Mike Griffiths and his experience report. For more details please visit http://podcast.leanonagile.com. Twitter: twitter.com/LeanOnAgileShow  LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/lean-on-agile

Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” chats with TechWell Community Manager Owen Gotimer about mobbing and pairing with distributed teams, collaborating across time zones, and why soft skills are actually hard to learn. Continue the conversation with Johanna and Owen on the TechWell Hub (hub.techwell.com/)! Music by LiQWYD:
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Joining Dan Neumann today are Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby! In case you don’t already know them, Johanna Rothman is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” and is the author of 14 books (and counting)! Through her management consulting, she helps managers and leaders create projects, teams, and organizations that work. Mark Kilby is an agile mentor and coach, playing many roles on the software and product lifecycle stage. His passions include serving servant leaders and building sustainable organizations that bring value to the people inside and outside the organization.   Recently, Mark and Johanna have collaborated on the book, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, that teaches how to create a successful distributed agile team and leave the chaos of virtual teams behind. This fascinating book will also be today’s topic of discussion! Johanna and Mark outline the differences between co-located, distributed, and dispersed teams; why the distinction between all three is important for agile teams; what is an agile team; key principles for these different types of agile teams; and nuggets of wisdom for managers of these teams.   Key Takeaways The distinction between colocated, distributed, and dispersed teams; and why it’s important: A co-located team is one that is collaborating and communicating in person (one that you can simply walk up to and have a discussion with) A distributed team is a group of individuals collaborating and communicating via communication technology (AKA a virtual team) A dispersed team is where some team members are in one space together while the rest are in another Mark has a simple way of distinguishing between these types through space analogies: A Satelite team: where the bulk of the team is located but you’ve got a small number of the team that is not co-located with each other The Clusters: where the organization has several clusters of people in different locations (i.e. co-located teams that have to coordinate the work) The Nebula: where everybody is distributed and works from different locations to collaborate as a team What is a team? And what is key specifically for agile teams? A team has a single goal (and one that is small enough to be able to actually collaborate together with) and has interdependent work The team has the capability and the hours of overlap to communicate and check-in with each other so that they have the right understanding of their collective progress and goal The team watches out for each other to make sure they’re collectively working towards their goal Key principles that will help your distributed team move towards better agility: Hours of overlap are crucial in allowing the teams to truly collaborate Flow efficiency for agile teams The team needs to create tighter bonds with each other Self-organizing and self-managing teams Critical for the teams to decide when the meetings occur and to outline their own working agreements Nuggets of wisdom and important qualities to uphold for managers that are leading distributed agile teams: The three important mindset shifts for managers (outlined in their book) are: manage for change, emphasize communication and collaboration, and use agile principles (not practices) Great managers have organizational expertise and understand how to get things done in the organization in order to set up the right environment for the teams Managers support teams in their continued growth Experimentation is key to managing for change What is Value Stream Mapping (VSM) and how is it an important tool? VSM is a lean management tool that helps visualize the steps needed to take from product creation to delivering it to the end-customer It’s especially useful for nebula teams that are completely separated from each other (to be able to see where the work is and how much wait time there is)   Mentioned in this Episode: Johanna Rothman Mark Kilby From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver, by Johanna Rothman and Mark Kilby “Dispersed vs. Distributed Teams,” by Johanna Rothman Agile Coaches’ Corner Ep.5: “Exploring an Experimental Mindset with Adam Ulery” Value Stream Mapping (VSM)   Johanna and Mark’s Book (and TV Show) Picks: The Man in the High Castle (Amazon Prime Series) Accounting for Slavery: Masters and Management, by Caitlin Rosenthal Educated: A Memoir, by Tara Westover   Want to Learn More or Get in Touch? Visit the website and catch up with all the episodes on AgileThought.com! Email your thoughts or suggestions to Podcast@AgileThought.com or Tweet @AgileThought using #AgileThoughtPodcast!

There Was This Buzz in the Organization Richard Kasperowski interviews Johanna Rothman. Johanna is known as the Pragmatic Manager—that’s the name of her email newsletter, where she shares her thinking on practical pragmatic approaches to hiring people, looking for a job, and managing projects, programs, and portfolios. Johanna talks about the best team of her life and the energy they felt together. Connect with Johanna at https://www.jrothman.com/. Read the full transcript at https://kasperowski.com/podcast-21-johanna-rothman. To support this podcast, subscribe to Richard’s newsletter at https://kasperowski.com.

SPaMCAST 540 features our interview Mark Kilby and Johanna Rothman. Johanna, Mark, and I discussed their new book, From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams, Collaborate to Deliver (Buy your copy here: https://amzn.to/2Omur23). Distributed agile teams are a fact of life; Johanna and Mark provide an extraordinary amount of wisdom for making distributed teams exceptional.    Johanna’s Bio Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough problems. She helps leaders and teams see problems, resolve risks, and manage their product development. Johanna was the Agile 2009 conference chair and was the co-chair of the first edition of the Agile Practice Guide. Johanna is the author of 14 books that range from hiring, to project management, program management, project portfolio management, and management. Her most recent books are From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams (with Mark Kilby) and Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. Read her blogs, email newsletter, and more information about her books at www.jrothman.com  Mark Kilby Bio With over two decades of experience in agile principles and practices, Mark Kilby has cultivated more distributed and dispersed teams than collocated teams.  He has consulted with organizations across many industries and coached teams, leaders, and organizations internally. Mark also co-founded a number of professional learning organizations such as Agile Orlando, Agile Florida, Virtual Team Talk, and the Agile Alliance Community Group Support Initiative among others.  His easy-going style helps teams learn to collaborate and discover their path to success and sustainability. Mark shares his insights on distributed and agile teams in dozens of articles in multiple publications. Most of his latest ideas and developments can be found on www.markkilby.com Re-Read Saturday News We have been re-reading Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point over the past 10 weeks.  When considering how I would wrap up the re-read I had to fight the urge to parrot back the findings Gladwell identified in the conclusion: a few people are critical and that people’s biases matter. Real life intervened and I applied the ideas in the book! We need to choose the next book in the Re-read Saturday Series. Steven Adams has requested a referendum on the next book.  Mr. Adams has always provided sage advice, therefore, a poll we will have! The poll will be open for two weeks. Vote for your two favorites. Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 541 will feature our essay on guardrails.  We will discuss using guardrails in decision making.  Guardrails are a tool to ensure alignment with the organization’s goals and objectives and to keep people on the right path.  Well-formed guardrails conform to five attributes that help teams and individuals make decisions. We will also have a visit from John M Quigley who brings his Alpha and Omega of Product Development column to the podcast.

“Pragmatic Manager” and author Johanna Rothman sits down to discuss her packed Agile2018 session “Agile and Lean Roadmapping: Incorporating Change at Every Level of Product Planning.” Businesses tend to want to follow a plan even when new information is available. Rothman advises using Minimum Viable Experiments to validate a business hypothesis and letting the results influence plans. To do so, she advocates for delivering on tiny stories (daily, if possible) and using rolling wave planning. She adds, “Resource efficiency is the greatest threat to knowledge work… I really like flow efficiency, where the entire team works together to produce the product." Howard Sublett hosts at Agile2018 in San Diego. The Agile Amped podcast is the shared voice of the Agile community, driven by compelling stories, passionate people, and innovative ideas. Together, we are advancing the impact of business agility. Podcast library: www.agileamped.com Connect with us on social media! Twitter: twitter.com/AgileAmpedFacebook: www.facebook.com/agileampedInstagram: www.instagram.com/agileamped/

In this week's episode Jay Hrcsko gathered up some Coalition contributors to discuss what they see as the future of agile!  Jay is joined by Georgina Hughes, David Sabine, and Johanna Rothman as they discuss the future of agile methodologies, roles, frameworks, and the role of the agile coach...and just a hint: they don't always agree!  Enjoy! Guests: Georgina Hughes: Georgina Hughes is an agile enthusiast from London where she’s actively engaged in the large community of agile practitioners. She took a diversion during her education from psychology into computer science, and has made a u-turn during her career back to psychology in order to support management in understanding that there is no difference between a software developer and a business person. She is currently studying with Barefoot Coaching to become an accredited member of the International Coaching Federation. Georgie's upcoming speaking engagement:  Troublemakers, Misfits, and Disruptors, how does one with with Agilists. https://www.meetup.com/ScrumEvent/events/256257177/ *** David Sabine: David’s career highlights the intersections of business, technology, the fine arts, and education. He is a Scrum Trainer, executive consultant, Product developer, Executive Director of Ontario Scrum Community®, a TEDx alumnus, Musician, and proud father of two daughters. *** Johanna Rothman: Known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” Johanna offers frank advice for your tough problems. She has an extensive career in project and program management, none of which were waterfall. She’s the author of 14 books, with more on the way. Her current book in progress is From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams: Collaborate to Deliver. Her most recent finished book is Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver. www.jrothman.com Book I mentioned: https://leanpub.com/geographicallydistributedagileteams/ Other books: https://www.jrothman.com/books/ Influential Agile Leader (I didn’t mention, but should have): https://www.influentialagileleader.com/    

Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman) joined Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) to discuss her new book:  Create Your Successful Agile Project – Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, and Deliver [featured-image single_newwindow=”false”]Johanna Rothman – Create Your Successful Agile Project[/featured-image] Johanna is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” who provides frank advice for difficult problems. She is a prolific author and blogger. She also publishes a newsletter called The Pragmatic Manager. She provides workshops, training, and other services to organizations looking to improve the way they get work done. Her books include: Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd edition Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Cost or Schedule Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Real Value in Your Project Portfolio Manage Your Job Search Hiring Geeks That Fit Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management In this episode you'll discover: How to help set your teams up for success from day one Why coaches and scrum masters need to focus on their own learning first The role of management in an agile project The power of experimentation Links from the show: Johanna’s website – https://www.jrothman.com/ How to support the show: Thank you for your support. Here are some of the ways to contribute to the show: Share the show with friends, family, colleagues, and co-workers. Sharing helps get the word out about Agile for Humans Rate us on iTunes and leave an honest review Join the mailing list – Check out the form on the right side of the page Take the survey – totally anonymous and helps us get a better idea of who is listening and what they are interested in Leadership Gift Program Make a donation via Patreon Book of the Week: [callout]Create Your Successful Agile Project – You think agile techniques might be for you, but your projects and organization are unique. An “out-of-the-box” agile approach won’t work. Instead, unite agile and lean principles for your project. See how to design a custom approach, reap the benefits of collaboration, and deliver value. For project managers who want to use agile techniques, managers who want to start, and technical leaders who want to know more and succeed, this book is your first step toward agile project success. Click here to purchase on Amazon.[/callout] [reminder]Which topic resonated with you? Please leave your thoughts in the comment section below.[/reminder] Related Episode: Want to hear another podcast about the life of an agile coach? — Listen to my conversation with Zach Bonaker, Diane Zajac-Woodie, and Amitai Schlair on episode 39. We discuss growing an agile practice and how coaches help create the environments where agile ideas can flourish. Help promote the show on iTunes: One tiny favor.  — Please take 30 seconds now and leave a review on iTunes. This helps others learn about the show and grows our audience. It will help the show tremendously, including my ability to bring on more great guests for all of us to learn from. Thanks! This podcast is brought to you by Audible. I have used Audible for years, and I love audiobooks. I have three to recommend: Agile and Lean Program Management by Johanna Rothman The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Rolling Rocks Downhill: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Entertaining Way to Learn Agile and Lean by Clark Ching All you need to do to get your free 30-day Audible trial is goto Audibletrial.com/agile. Choose one of the above books, or choose among more than 180,000 audio programs. It's that easy. Go to Audibletrial.com/agile and get started today. Enjoy! The post AFH 083: Create Your Successful Agile Project with Johanna Rothman appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SPaMCAST 468 features the return of Johanna Rothman. Johanna and I discussed her new book, Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver.  (Buy your copy today and support Johanna and the SPaMCAST).  Johanna provides incredibly useful and pragmatic insights for delivering value to your customers and stakeholders! Johanna Rothman, known as the “Pragmatic Manager,” provides frank advice for your tough product development problems. Johanna is the author of more than ten books, including: Create Your Successful Agile Project: Collaborate, Measure, Estimate, Deliver Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects, 2nd ed Diving for Hidden Treasures: Finding the Value in Your Project Portfolio (with Jutta Eckstein) Predicting the Unpredictable: Pragmatic Approaches to Estimating Project Schedule or Cost See more of Johanna’s writing on http://www.jrothman.com, and http://www.createadaptablelife.com. Contact Johanna at: Email:  jr@jrothman.com Web:   www.jrothman.com Previous interview with Johanna SPaMCAST 180 - Johanna Rothman, Transparency and Trust SPaMCAST 23 - Rothman, Project Management, Traceability Upcoming Appearances Metricas 2017 I will be keynoting on Agile leadership and delivering one my favorite presentations, Function Points and Pokémon Go 29 November 2017 Sao Paulo, Brazil ⇒ Register Re-Read Saturday News This week we re-read Chapter 4 of Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability: An Introduction by Daniel S. Vacanti. Chapter 4 is titled, An Introduction to CFDs. Cumulative Flow Diagrams deliver a huge amount of actionable information.  This chapter lays down the basics needed to build a CFD.  Buy your copy today and read along! Previous Installments Introduction and Game Plan Week 2: Flow, Flow Metrics, and Predictability Week 3: The Basics of Flow Metrics Week 4: An Introduction to Little’s Law Dead Tree Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/098643633X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=098643633X&linkCode=as2&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=3488b22252fbe0c99b33ea226f9dcdf5 Kindle https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013ZQ5TUQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B013ZQ5TUQ&linkCode=as2&tag=softprocandme-20&linkId=f5bdfb462b1cb570344bba7dff6e3c37 Get your copy and begin reading (or re-reading)! A Call To Action Can you tell a friend about Software Process and Measurement Cast?  I know you enjoy the podcast and if you are like your friends, so will they.  Tell them about the cast and perhaps show them how to download the podcast. Next SPaMCAST SPaMCAST 469 features our essay on consensus decision-making.  Consensus decision-making is one of the most prevalent decision-making tools in organizations today. But, consensus decision-making has it plusses and minuses. We will decide to discuss this. We will also have columns from Kim Pries (The Software Sensei) and from Steve Tendon, who will bring us part 2 of chapter 20 of Tame The Flow: Hyper-Productive Knowledge-Work Performance, The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban  (buy a copy here). Shameless Ad for my book! Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received unsolicited reviews like the following: “This book will prove that software projects should not be a tedious process, for you or your team.” Support SPaMCAST by buying the book here. Available in English and Chinese.

Join Tammy Coron and Tim Mitra on Episode 88, which was recorded on June 14, 2017. On this episode we talk with Johanna Rothman. Johanna is best known as the Pragmatic Manager. She provides frank advice for your tough problems, often with a little humor. She also publishes a close-to-monthly email newsletter, aptly titled The Pragmatic Manager, and she has written more books than I can count on my two hands. If you like listening to Roundabout: Creative Chaos, and you want to know how you can help support the show, please visit our Patreon page at patreon.com/justwritecode. Don't forget to stick around for the after show!

Hello Tech People. Today I’m joined by Johanna Rothman. Johanna is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” and is an expert in everything management. She has written numerous books on the subject, consults and shares her wealth of knowledge at many very high profile events. In my time with Johanna we discuss what product management is and how it differs from product development, the responsibilities of a product owner, differences between a product owner and product manager as well as the differences between a product roadmap and a project portfolio. We are blessed to have someone as knowledgeable as Johanna on our show this week.

Hosts Ryan Ripley, Johanna Rothman Discussion Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) and Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman) got together at the Path to Agility Conference to discuss her new book – Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio. [featured-image single_newwindow=”false” alt=”Johanna Rothman”]Johanna Rothman Presenting at The Path to Agility Conference 2016 – Copyright COHAA[/featured-image] Then we talked about her presentation “Becoming an Agile Leader Regardless of Your Role”, what the cost of delay is and how it can help you learn about your program and portfolio, and how to beat writers block and get your words on paper. Johanna is known as the “Pragmatic Manager who provides frank advice for difficult problems. She a prolific author and blogger. She also publishes a newsletter called The Pragmatic Manager. She provides workshops, training, and other services to organizations looking to improve the way they get work done. And then…we called it a day. I'd like to thank the Central Ohio Agile Association for putting on The Path to Agility Conference and for allowing me to interview the speakers and attendees at the conference. Path is one of my favorite agile conferences each year. If you have not attended, you are missing out. Will you help the Agile for Humans podcast grow? Please review Agile for Humans on iTunes and Stitcher and leave your comments on the blog site. Help your friends and co-workers find Agile for Humans by sharing your favorite episodes with them. Thanks for all you do to support the show. Agile for Humans is brought to you by audible.com – get one FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/agile Resources, Plugs, and More Ryan – https://ryanripley.com The Path to Agility Conference Agile 2016 – The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper Johanna – http://www.jrothman.com/ Agile and Lean Program Management Predicting the Unpredictable Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio The post AFH 037: Cost of Delay with Johanna Rothman [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hosts Ryan Ripley, Johanna Rothman Discussion Ryan Ripley (@ryanripley) and Johanna Rothman (@johannarothman) got together to discuss Johanna's new book “Agile and Lean Program Management: Scaling Collaboration Across the Organization”. Johanna is known as the “Pragmatic Manager” who provides frank advice for difficult problems. She is a prolific author and blogger and also publishes a newsletter called The Pragmatic Manager. Johanna provides workshops, training, and other services to organizations looking to improve the way they get work done. In a previous post, I reviewed Johanna's excellent book – Predicting the Unpredictable and still cannot recommend this important book on estimation enough. Overall, this is an immensely practical book that belongs on the shelf of anyone working on an agile team. The practical suggestions on how to handle providing estimates is worth the prices of the book, making the coverage of advanced topics like #NoEstimates a welcome bonus. Highly recommended! On this episode of Agile for Humans we talked about servant leadership at the program management level, metrics that matter and those that don't, and where to focus your time and effort to effectively manage your project portfolio. Finally, we wrapped up with thoughts on management, cost of delay concepts, and #NoEstimates. And then…we called it a night. Will you help the Agile for Humans podcast grow? Please review Agile for Humans on iTunes and Stitcher and leave your comments on the blog site. Help your friends and co-workers find Agile for Humans by sharing your favorite episodes with them. Thanks for all you do to support the show. Agile for Humans is brought to you by audible.com – get one FREE audiobook download and 30 day free trial at http://www.audibletrial.com/agile Resources, Plugs, and More Ryan – https://ryanripley.com The Path to Agility Conference – May 25 & 26 in Columbus, OH Agile 2016 – The Business of Agile: Better, Faster, Cheaper Johanna – http://www.jrothman.com/ Agile and Lean Program Management by Johanna Rothman Predicting the Unpredictable by Johanna Rothman Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management by Johanna Rothman & Esther Derby Diving for Hidden Treasures: Uncovering the Cost of Delay in Your Project Portfolio by Johanna Rothman & Jutta Eckstein The post AFH 034: Agile Program Management with Johanna Rothman [PODCAST] appeared first on Ryan Ripley.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.